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BARCELONA, ALSO CAPITAL CITY OF THE WWW - “FC Barcelona” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” vip keywords.

According to the report “Image and tourist positioning of Barcelona in Internet social networks“ our city has an “upper middle notoriety” in the most important internet search engines. Google gives over 180 million results related to the word “Barcelona” (Madrid gives 242 million, London 430 and New York 680).
In 2.0 websites Barcelona is one of the best rated cities, specially appreciated by “cosmopolitan” and “innovative”; although is taking relevance for “dirty” and “noisy” too. Also appears well rated for the commerce and restaurants so in architecture and climate. As for keywords “FC Barcelona” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” are the most typed on search engines, and “hotel” as the word linked to the city in searches. In Flikr, only New York, London and Paris overcome Barcelona in photos posted. The most interesting places to “post” are La Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló, Tibidabo, Catalunya Square, and Port Vell.
Despite this, the report says that the city absolutly do not takes the most of the net to promote itself, but here we go with Hostal Mare Nostrum to boost the fame of this new capital city of the world wide web!
source: ADN (26/1/10)